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Brian C. Parkhurst wrote:[Tue Oct 26 2004, 06:36:52PM EDT] |
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> The -fPIC -DPIC definitely made a difference. I've been running Gentoo |
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> since January on this particular alpha but have yet (Xfree or Xorg) to |
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> get X to run locally. Always server core exit on run. |
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I'm running xorg-x11-6.8 on XP1000 with no problems without needing to |
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explicitly specify -fPIC |
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> I was also getting lots of: |
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> Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10 |
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> Which googling pointed to PIC problems with the compilation. |
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Oh, really? I wasn't aware of that. Could you point to the pages? |
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> Xorg -configure always worked okay. Last problem I was having was xfs |
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> giving a floating point exception on startup. |
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This isn't related to -fPIC. I include -mieee in CFLAGS on alpha |
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which would probably fix that problem for you. (I'd like it if |
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everybody would include -mieee in CFLAGS on alpha... there's almost no |
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code out there that's written to work with the non-ieee behavior, so |
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it's just asking for trouble to build without it) |
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> The build took 12 hours and I am still getting the ELF errors but it |
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> looks as the X continues to run and doesn't server exit. |
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> (I'm not actually at the console at the moment to see the X though). |
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> BTW, this alpha server 800 with an add-on ATI RagePro3D+TV (Mach 64 |
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> derivative) |
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> I disabled the onboard S3 VGA as it wasn't supported except as a VGA. |
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Good to hear it's working... I don't have an ATI adapter on alpha to |
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test at the moment. My daily workstation has an Elsa GLoria. |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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